Movie Suggestion XXXIX: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night   Country: United States – 2014   Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller   Directed by: Ana Lily Amirpour   Starring: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh.     Synopsis: “The first Iranian Vampire Western ever made, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. A joyful mash-up of genre, archetype, and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave.”…

  Movie Suggestion XXXVIII: Relatos salvajes   Country: Country: Argentina | Spain – 2014   Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller   Directed by: Damián Szifrón   Starring: Ricardo Darín, Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa.     Synopsis: “Inequality, injustice and the demands of the world we live in cause stress and depression for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This is a movie about those people. Vulnerable in the face of a reality that shifts and suddenly turns unpredictable,…

  Movie Suggestion XXXVII: A nagy füzet   Country: Hungary | Germany | Austria | France – 2013   Genre: War, Drama   Directed by: János Szász   Starring: László Gyémánt, András Gyémánt, Piroska Molnár, Ulrich Thomsen.       “Twin siblings enduring the harshness of WWII in a village on the Hungarian border hedge their survival on studying and learning from the evil surrounding them.” (imdb.com)     “Are you a nihilist? Trouble finding a way to bring satisfaction…

  Movie Suggestion XXXVI: Kis Uykusu   Country: Turkey | France | Germany – 2014   Genre: Drama   Directed by: Nuri Bilge Ceylan   Starring: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag.     “Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into…

  Movie Suggestion XXXV: Mandariinid   Country: Estonia/ Georgia – 2013   Genre: Drama, History, War   Directed by: Zaza Urushadze   Starring: Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nüganen, Giorgi Nakashidze     “War in Georgia, Apkhazeti region 1992: local Apkhazians are fighting to break free from Georgia. Estonian village between the mountains has become empty, almost everyone has returned to their homeland, only 2 men have stayed: Ivo and Margus. But Margus will leave as soon as he has harvested his…